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During the anniversary celebrations, some journalists were entertained at the home of Brigadier General Nguyen Huu Hanh, who was briefly Deputy Chief of Staff of the South Vietnamese army, though rumored to have ties with the Viet Cong Communist insurgents. Under the new regime he enjoys a token position, but no power. Now he ruminated about shortages--food and gasoline and electricity--in a grand old house that was half empty, thick with dust, and stifling under a broken...
...system is to be found mainly, it seems, among the quiet, leathery revolutionaries who fought the war and who tend not to talk much about the travails that hardened their commitment. Some of their relatives share that strength. At Cu Chi, where entire families once lived in a Viet Cong-built labyrinth of tunnels that snaked along for more than 100 miles beneath U.S. bases, Nguyen Thi Tu, 60, sells fruit to visitors. "I feel better than before," says the bony woman. "We have complete freedom. We can work anywhere. We are not afraid of anything...
...afraid, perhaps, but sometimes bitter. Villagers around Ben Tre talk of defoliants--Agent Orange--sprayed by U.S. aircraft killing the coconut trees that provided the main source of their income. Vo Van Canh, 49, a former Viet Cong, points to his 17-year-old son, who has the arrested development of a two-year-old, the result, says Vo, of dioxin poisoning. At the Tu Du Women's Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City, Dr. Nguyen Thi Ngoc says her studies, though not conclusive, suggest that women exposed to the defoliants have 15 times as many fetal deaths as those...
WHAT THAT JOB exactly was became the unanswered question of the war years. Because there was no military goal except the defeat of the Viet Cong, the Army turned to measuring its success by the number of suspected guerrillas killed. Body counts-the grisly listing of how many Vietnamese killed each day-became...
...Says he: "The visit was a sobering look at the ways in which hard-line ideologues have imposed their will on a nation." Eddie Adams, a TIME photographer who, while on assignment for the Associated Press in 1968, took the indelible picture of a Vietnamese general shooting a Viet Cong point-blank, also went back in 1983, though reluctantly. "I didn't think I had left anything there," he says. "I was wrong. Everything came back, but it was all off-key: Russians walking down the streets, the bars all turned into sedate coffee shops. I was a stranger...